5. OLDER AND WISER

5. OLDER AND WISER

JOHN WOIKE | woike@courant.com

The UConn defense comes back a year older, wiser and should be even more aggressive under second-year defensive coordinator Don Brown, the former defensive coordinator at UMass in its FCS national championship season (1998). Brown was the Minutemen head coach from 2004-08. He is known as a defensive mastermind, and he took hold of a defense that had some talent but not a lot of depth last season. Now there is depth, size and, most importantly, experience. Brown¿s attacking, take-no-prisoners style defeense will be pitted against an uptempo, oft-no-huddle style from UMass.

The UConn defense comes back a year older, wiser and should be even more aggressive under second-year defensive coordinator Don Brown, the former defensive coordinator at UMass in its FCS national championship season (1998). Brown was the Minutemen head coach from 2004-08. He is known as a defensive mastermind, and he took hold of a defense that had some talent but not a lot of depth last season. Now there is depth, size and, most importantly, experience. Brown¿s attacking, take-no-prisoners style defeense will be pitted against an uptempo, oft-no-huddle style from UMass. (JOHN WOIKE | woike@courant.com)

The UConn defense comes back a year older, wiser and should be even more aggressive under second-year defensive coordinator Don Brown, the former defensive coordinator at UMass in its FCS national championship season (1998). Brown was the Minutemen head coach from 2004-08. He is known as a defensive mastermind, and he took hold of a defense that had some talent but not a lot of depth last season. Now there is depth, size and, most importantly, experience. Brown¿s attacking, take-no-prisoners style defeense will be pitted against an uptempo, oft-no-huddle style from UMass.